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SUPPORT AND FASTENING FOR METALLIC TIES.

Patented Oct. 17, 1893.

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SUPPORT AND FASTENING FOR METALLIC TIES.

Patented 001:. 17', 1893.

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WITNESSES:

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. PRICE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PRICE RAILWAY APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

SUPPORT AND FA STENlNG FOR METALLIC TIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 50'7,080, dated October 17,1893.

Applioationfiled August 29, 1892. Serial No.4=44,364=- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PRICE, a citiand county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented'a new and'useful Improvement in Supports and Fastenings for Metallic Ties, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings. 1

My invention consists of abed plate of peculiar shape as hereinafter set forth adapted to underlie angle bars, channels or plates constituting the body of a railroad tie, whereby each point crossed by the rail will be firmly supported thereby.

It also consists of a chair of novel construction, and a clamp for binding the flange of the rail to its support between the chair, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

It also consists of a fastening support or anchor midway of the tie as hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a support and fastening for a metallic tie, embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents an endwise elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a bed plate detached. Fig. 4 represents a vertical sectiononline 00, as, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of the chair. Fig. Grepresents' a section on line y, y, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 represents a perspective view of the clamp. Fig. 8 represents a perspective view of another part or my invention, the central inverted chair or anchor. Fig. 9 represents a section on line 2,2, Fig. 8. Fig. 10 represents an end view of a. construction to be hereinafter referred to. Fig. 11 represents a perspective view of a part to be hereinafter referred to.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings: A designates a bed plate formed of a suitably shaped plate of metal with openingsB in the corners thereof, and rectangular or other shaped apertures C in the opposite sides thereof, said plate having a depending limb D forming a T.

E designates a chair in the base of which are openings F, F, and an aperture G for the passage therethrough of the lower portion or the body of the tie.

Zfoot of the clamp H to be hereinafter more ';particularly referred to. zen of the United States, residing in the city In the vertical wall of the chair E is an open ing .T, which'coincides in position with an opening K in the clamp H, for the passage of a bolt which secures the opposite clamps to each other in their embrace of the flange of the rail.

Depending from the side walls of the apperture Gin the base of the chair E are legs L, which are adapted to enter the aperture C of the bed plate A, and rest against the walls thereof, so as to prevent the chair from sliding under excessive strain imposed upon In order to strengthen the chair E, the same is formed with flanges or braces M, at present four in number, the same extending from the top of the chair to the edge ofits base, as most plainly shown in Fig. 5.

lhe central portion'of the bed A is raised, forming somewhat of a swell or projection N, and on the same and the adjacent angle bars or plates forming the body of the tie, is rested a cushion P of wood or other non-metallic substance, the same filling the space between the vertical walls of two chairs, and supporting the rail whose flange is placed thereon, said cushion being of such height that the upper surface of the rail flange is level with the upper edge of the vertical wallof the chair, or at least no higher, it being noticed that the central portion of said wall is depressed as at Q, to permitproper play of the clamp H in use, and it being noticed that said clamp is ribbed at each edge so as to attain great strength with a light section, and has on each end a lip R, the upper lip engaging with the flange of the rail, and the lower lip engaging with the under side of the bed plate after its passage through the aperture G in the chair and the aperture C in the bed plate. The chair rests upon angle bars, ties, channels or the horizontal limbs U of the plates S and the bed plate underlies said bars, ties, channels or plates, and bolts or rivets are inserted through the foot of the chair into the angle bar, channel or plate and then into the underlying bed plate, thus grasping or clutching all of said parts as one, and

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stQaXtQH A QP a peaing hu "angle bamtndeathe; base ofithe chair,,,an d through a corresponding hole in an underlying bed plate to which chair and angle barare attached by the same bolts or rivets, as part of the fittings or jas tenings of metallic ties, substanstrain orextraordinary trafiic, sh0rt-pieces er rtially as described. 1

plates of angle bars:Smithpcpeningseto.core I respond to the body bars as shown in Figs. 8

and 10, or as in.Fig- 1.1. ax m-mac damia a el t l a fiialw theweight ofthe trains is-to come, the same 3.5.1 .rmafastenifig for? riiefiiliiu; chairs E with feet projecting from their bases to and u, yinr bed lates A which "are under iiigerve ning' angle bars:

being firmly bound in one structure with them channel bars or plates S firmly attached by by the traversing bolts 01: rivets, ar d placed riyets oxg bglts to .the cha irsgand bed, plates,

between'the horizontal "limb-or plate of the angle bar S, and the su-hjacent bed plate A, and in contact with each.

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R. H. GRAESER. 

